The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-05-07

eau De more l1kened to the face of n
Elephant than Lion, with all differ
ence to the commission, must saw tn,
II the disease or concatenation of an
pearances they diagnosed as Lepros
absolute, is sLeprOsy: then in controven
ton, | will advance no opinions of m
own; for be it from me to assume suc]
positions; but l will adduce shinins
lights to the Science of Medicine. tn
greatest collaborators of the Science an,
Practice of Medicine, whose work is tn
Text Book of the principal colleges o
London, Edinburgh, Dublin, McGil
University and the United States. MeI
loaded with all the honOrs that the Uni
versities could confer on them. refel
. to ''Aitkin's Science and Practice of Me-
dicine" revised by Meredith Clymel
Professor of the Institutes and Practice
of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
subsequently of New York, who desert
beS as Leprosy, disease directly the
reverse in every particular. In the Sec
Ond volume of the above work page 974
he lays down the "Psouasis Vulgaris'
Lepra Vulgaris, Ueprosy of the Bible)
(Sereticus II c p is characterized, by
irregularly formed patches slightly raised
above the level of the skin, and covered
with thin white dry scales, the patches
may be distinct or continent. DR.. Nc
Call Anderson adds that in some instan-
ces, large conical crusts marked BY con-
centric rings, intense itchings, accompa-
Eies the above characteristics. l offer
no comment, the above facts dictate the
conclusions. 1t is greatly to be regretted
that DermatOlogists, who have constitu-
ted a certain set of symptoms either into
a new disease, or a variation of an old
one did nh designate it with an ''ism''
as TheOlOgists do, or as variation No.
and 2 as musicians do; but that the name
and description of disease given by
Aitken the accepted Text Author of the
Best Universities, and by the "Volumi-
nous Reynolds" the Text Book of 'sTu-
lane" under the same name with differ
ent characteristics; which of the Ipse
Dixits is correct Old Molliere would
cry out ''Mei Occult Humbuggum gra-
tias cGlis.' In the primeval and Medie-
val ages, diseases indicated by the skin
were mixed up, the collaborators of Ait
kin separated the warty and other dis
eases laid down by Dermatologists as
Varieties of Leprosy, and brought them
under different class where they Justly
belong. And it may not be irrelevant
that the food solid or liquid introduced
into the stomach developes the tissues of
the animal or begets destructive agents
in the economy, and lays the foundation
of diseases, since the primeval ages in
Vulnerable varieties of condiments have
been invented, and brought into vogue
habitats, tastes, causes of diseases have
changed. of hereditary diseases especial
iy; in desultory conversation with the
''City Committee" assumed to venture
in connection with the above, that pecu-
liar idiocyncrasis asserted themselves at
the Table D'hote, some hereditaries
would seek dishes that would be rejected
with disgust by others, that the same
hereditary sensories of the stomach pre-
vailed through the stomata of the whole
assimilant system, bequeathing heredi-
tory disease by providing the necessary
pabulum. The short entertaining and
instructive visit of Drs. Holt, Solomon,
and Blanc, leaves a long regret. The